While this is admirable, by allowing to occur, and doing it themselves, they have demonstrated the inability to make big, bold decisions. Going negative is the lower energy, lower class way to go, and demonstrates that they made poor personnel decisions, and are not able to readjust effectively under changing conditions. This all fits in the category of poor leadership qualities. While Sanders has many good policy ideas, in the end, it was his demonstrated poor leadership skills that led me to other candidates.

The orange anal blister's campaign won't hesitate to go negative and bring up all those past issues that could be very problomatic in the general election. It wasn't Bernie's style to do that, and it cost him.

In black and white he can hit Trump over the head with. The cuts to social security, Medicare and Medicaid. If he brings up the crime bill he can hit Trump with the Central Park Five.

As soon as he started losing, he went negative and and made ads with exactly the kind of points that the article mentioned.

"Crucially, both Mr. Sanders and his wife, Jane, consistently expressed reservations about going negative on Mr. Biden, preferring to stick with the left-wing policy message they have been pressing for 40 years."

I was so disappointed over everybody jumping Biden instead of Trump.

We needed a message of what was wrong with Trumps programs. And Joe and Bernie got it right.

For Sanders to refrain from negative campaigning, he would have to fire most of his aides and surrogates, and denounce publicly as fools and frauds his most dedicated supporters. All he has ever done is try and posture as above what his claque says, and campaign for the destruction of the 'Democratic Establishment'. Which of course includes any prominent Democrat holding or seeking office.




"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

Everyone who is anyone was predicting Sanders would fizzle. I'm surprised he didn't get the word before January.

Of the two points brought up:

1. Biden didn't support "overhauling" Social Security, but make relatively minor changes to it - changes that from time to time even Sanders advocated.

2. Although Biden did author the bill, Sanders (in the House at the time) voted for the bill.

It could be that they didn't "go negative" because that could have backfired considering Sanders' record on both issues.

Parenthetically, after the bill was passed it was noted that the penalties for the two types of cocaine were inconsistent. Accordingly Democrats in 1995 proposed to lessen the penalty for crack cocaine to that of powder cocaine. Sanders balked at that - instead he wanted to RAISE the penalty for powder cocaine to that of crack cocaine, effectively strengthening the penalties in the bill that Democrats wanted to weaken.

This may be another reason why the Sanders campaign didn't want to "go negative" - it would have exposed glaring faults in his positions on the 1994 Crime Bill.

'Don't vote for him, he voted just like me!' is a pretty poor line of attack. Oh, Sanders had his 'reasons' for casting that vote, but he he cast it, and those 'reasons' don't matter a tinker's damn against that. Hard as it is to remember now, a good deal of support for that bill came from leaders in the black community, where many certainly felt themselves menaced by increasingly violent crime. Such men and women may be forgiven for failing to forsee how police would treat it as carte blanche for assault on young black men in general.




"When things are not called by their right names, what is said cannot make sense. When what is said does not make sense, what is planned cannot succeed. When plans do not succeed, people become uneasy. When people are uneasy, punishments do not fit crimes. When punishments do not fit crimes, people cannot know where to put hand or foot."

And they already used the crime bill.

The voters chose Biden and not Sanders. It’s time we listen to the voters and move forward.

This inside story is undercut by the fact that Bernie repeatedly goes negative. He even went negative on Elizabeth Warren. Bernie primary message is to attack the character of his opponents to suggest that they are motivated by personal greed or are agents of the "establishment."

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/11/bernie-quietly-goes-negative-on-warren-097594

“I like Elizabeth Warren. [optional]” the script begins. “In fact, she’s my second choice. But here’s my concern about her.” It then pivots to the criticisms of Warren.

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Bernie's campaign did use SS and the crime bill. Also, his campaign staff were retweeting accounts that were talking about Joe and "dementia." Pretty low and negative if you ask me.

BS will use his campaign as a pretext to attack and undermine the Democratic party.

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Yes. He lumps us together with repukes. It's insulting. As a proud democrat, I feel insulted. It's part of the reason he lost. He kept insulting us.

...relentless on twitter and other social media, repeating almost hourly for weeks the phony "Biden wants to cut SS", "Biden wrote the Crime Bill", and their latest "Biden will veto medicare for all".

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/04/sanders-kicks-new-phase-campaign-ad-blitz-challenging-biden-march-primary-states

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I'm glad he lost. Can you imagine him running the WH like this?

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Good god!

Bernie's 2016 Michigan ad:

He had two negative Biden ads, a similar one on NAFTA and another one on SS, running for weeks in battleground states, including Michigan, until this week in fact:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/04/sanders-kicks-new-phase-campaign-ad-blitz-challenging-biden-march-primary-states

"reservations about going negative on Mr. Biden"? Oh please. It's SOP.

p.s. When looking for Bernie's 2016 NAFTA ad I came across one very similar to it -- except that it's a 2016 Trump ad:

ability for the landslide he projected, expected. Took off the glow immediately. The black vote in SC spoke. Amy and Pete and Beto getting behind Biden in Texas.

"Mr. Sanders was not interested in moving in that direction. Some advisers, who endured the divisive 2016 campaign, believed that it was only after seizing a dominant advantage that Mr. Sanders could attempt to make peace with a Democratic establishment that remained intensely wary of him."

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It seemed so supremely tacky, especially after blowing off the march in Selma that weekend. Welp, he got his ass handed to him, and no one can say he didn't earn it.

TY, Goth!

So much for "internal polling".. And Mahalo James Clyburn and all the GOTV..like Vivica A Fox!


We Told him.. Keep it up!


Ooops.. bern notice guy...


No can do..


BS "knew who to blame".. no self reflection.. There's that word again.. "ESTABLISMENT".. deal!

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Remember this? Q: who was the first to sign this? Remember? Ran around yelling 'first.' Who was first to break this? Hint: It's the same person for both.

We must defeat Donald Trump. The first step is a primary contest that produces a strong Democratic nominee. The second step is winning the general election. We will not accept anything less. To ensure this outcome, I pledge to:

Make the primary constructive. I’ll respect the other candidates and make the primary election about inspiring voters with my vision for the future.

ally behind the winner. I’ll support the ultimate Democratic nominee, whomever it is — period. No Monday morning quarterbacking. No third-party threats. Immediately after there’s a nominee, I’ll endorse.

Do the work to beat Trump. I will do everything in my power to make the Democratic Nominee the next President of the United States. As soon as there is a nominee, I will put myself at the disposal of the campaign.

https://pledge.indivisible.org/

But it is still a good documentation of events.